Natural Beauty and Ethnic Culture Discovery

When you arrive in Guilin, your local guide will wait for you in the Arrival Hall of the airport, holding a welcome sign with your name on it. Then a comfortable drive will take you to the hotel of the downtown.

After checking in and having a nice break, you will be escorted to start your Guilin tour with a visit to the Elephant Trunk Hill. It is a naturally-formed hill that vividly resembles a big elephant drinking water from the Li River with its long trunk. At night, you can explore the Two Rivers and Four Lakes and enjoy the amazing night view of the city at your own leisurely pace.

Have breakfast at your hotel before hitting the road to Longsheng to enjoy the spectacular Dragon's Backbone Rice Terraces. The transfer takes around two hours from Guilin to Longsheng.

Upon arrival, your guide will lead you to hike up to the viewing point, which is the best place to appreciate the grand scene of the terraces. There are lots of steps, which requires a certain amount of physical strength. However, along the way you will see extensive terraces stretching up and down the sides of the mountains and through the valleys. The incredible views are worth all your efforts.

This area is also dotted with minority villages with their unique wooden stilt houses. Here you will have a chance to visit the villages of the Zhuang Minority People closely and get to know their distinctive ethnic culture.

At the end of the trip, we will transfer you back to the hotel in Guilin.

Meals: Western buffet breakfast

No Guilin tour will be completed without the Li River cruise. This morning, you will be transferred to the pier to board the Cruise. The scenery on both banks is like a Chinese landscape painting, which will be sure to amaze you and leave you with unforgettable memories. 

The Li River cruise normally takes 3 to 4 hours and arrive in Yangshuo in the early afternoon. Then, you will enjoy a relaxing countryside tour in Yangshuo and visit a local villager's home to experience the farmer's lifestyle.

Afterwards, you will be transfered to the Xianggong Hill, around 40 minutes drive.  Lying between the famous Yellow Cloth Shoal and the Mural Hill, the Xianggong Hill is one of the greatest viewing platforms to take in the glamour of the Li River. The supreme view of the meandering Li River turning 180 degrees here attracts countless visitors and photographers from all over the world every year. It takes about 15 minutes hike along a moderately sloped staricase to reach the top of the hill. 

Meals: Western buffet breakfast, Lunch

In the morning, your guide will pick you up at the hotel and take you back to Guilin. Along the way, you will visit a less-touristy ancient village with a history of over 1,000 years, called Xiongcun. You will stroll along the cobblestone-paved alleys to delve into the unspoiled traditional lifestyle of the Xiongcun Village. You can see that the antique residences still maintain their original look with wooden-board doors and windows and mottled walls. While staying there, you would feel like being brought back hundreds of years.

Then continue your trip to Reed Flute Cave. The caves are spectacular and well illuminated. You will be accompanied to enter this dazzling cave and encounter countless stalactites and stalagmites in various shapes, like lions, curtains, dragons, pagodas and forests. 

After that, we will transfer you to the airport and see you off there.

Meals: Western buffet breakfast